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Home Grown Soul: Jimmy Hughes and Booker T. Jones

This week we visit with two masters of Southern soul. Multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones, along with his group the MGs, helped to create the legendary Stax sound. We talk with Booker T. about growing up in Memphis and his work with Southern rock band, the Drive-By Truckers. Soul singer Jimmy Hughes got his start at another landmark of Southern music, FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Hughes shares stories about his classic hits “Steal Away” and “Why Not Tonight,” as well as his move from gospel to soul and back again.

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PRISON SONGS: MERLE HAGGARD AND AARON NEVILLE

December 13th, 2000

American Routes explores the music associated with outlaws and life behind bars, from “Ball and Chain” to “Jailhouse Rock,” from Johnny Cash’s San Quentin show to Leadbelly’s “Midnight Special.” Metaphorical chains of love are also rattled in story and song. Our guests include famous former inmates whose music reflects their own life struggles and triumphs, Plus a visit to the “Wildest Show in the South”—the Angola Louisiana Prison Rodeo.

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HOUR ONE

  • Open Bed: "Po Lazarus James Carter & The Prisoners
    O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack, Lost Highway/Mercury
  • Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
    Live at Folsom Prison, Sony
  • Riot In Cell Block #9 Wanda Jackson
    Vintage Collections, Capitol
  • He's in the Jailhouse Now Memphis Sheiks
    From Where I Stand, Warner
  • Prison Bound Robert Nighthawk
    The Aristocrat of The Blues, Chess/MCA
  • INTERVIEW: Merle Haggard
  • Instrumental: If I Could Only Fly Merle Haggard
    If I Could Only Fly, Anti
  • INTERVIEW: Merle Haggard
  • Cole Younger Edward L. Crain
    Harry Smith Collection,
  • Outlaw Blues Bob Dylan
    Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia
  • 21 days in Jail Magic Sam
    Magic Sam 1957-1966, West Side Guitar, Cobra
  • Instrumental: Aurora En Pekin Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos
    Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos, Atlantic
  • El Mojado Los Hermanos BarrĂ³n y Conjunto
    The Chicano Experience, Folklyric Records
  • The Tijuana Jail Johnny Bond
    The Best of Johnny Bond, Varese Vintage
  • Jailhouse Blues Dinah Washington
    Sings Bessie Smith, Verve
  • Jailhouse Rock Albert King
    King Does The King's Things, Stax
  • The Things I Used To Do James Brown
    James Brown: Messing with the Blues, Polydor
  • Have Mercy Judge Chuck Berry
    The Chess Box, Chess/MCA

HOUR two

  • Angola Bound Aaron Neville
    The Very Best of Aaron Neville, A&M
  • Parchman Farm Johnny Rivers
    Anthology 1964-1977, Rhino
  • SEGMENT: Angola Prison Farm Rodeo
  • Stewball Ed Lewis and Prisoners
    Southern Journey Vol. 3: 61 Highway Mississippi, Folkways
  • Chain Gang Sam Cooke
    Greatest Hits, RCA
  • Back On The Chain Gang Pretenders
    The Singles, Sire
  • Instrumental: Work Song Grant Green
    2 by 5 Guitar Jazz, 32 Jazz
  • INTERVIEW: Aaron Neville

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  • How Blue Can You Get BB King
    Live In Cook County Jail, MCA
  • Instrumental: Midnight Special Tiny Grimes
    Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Atlantic
  • Midnight Special Leadbelly
    From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music, Warner Bros
  • Midnight Special Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Hot Stuff, Fantasy
  • I Shall Be Released Heptones
    Sea of Love, Rounder
  • I'm Goin Home Ervin Webb with Prisoners
    Ervin Webb with Prisoners, Folkways

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